Financial and commercial arrangements and conflicts of interest

This guidance will help you to recognise when conflicts of interest arise, how to avoid them wherever possible, and requirements for declaring and managing them.

There’s advice about accepting gifts, sponsorship, incentives, commissioning services, and relationships with the pharmaceutical industry. It will help you to make decisions in a way that maintains public trust in the profession.

We help to protect patients and improve medical education and practice in the UK by setting standards for students and doctors. We support them in achieving and exceeding those standards, and take action when they are not met.